Turkey: Nature Protection 2018

This beautiful Turkish cover is from series Nature Protection, and is dedicated Sultan Reedy National Park, established on March 17, 2006, and it's located in central Turkey. Sultan Reedy National Park  has important freshwater bodies and salt springs. It is one of the rare ecosystems which have both freshwater lakes and salty lakes, and it is also important for nearly extinct bird species which live in the national park. Since Sultan Reedy is on migration routes, and is an important region for these species to take shelter and reproduce, it is included by the Ramsar Convention, which is for protecting the wet lands which are important internationally for water birds. More than 130.000 water birds and 251 different bird species place a particular importance to the national park. This beautiful flamingo minisheet is issued on 26.9.2018.


Thank you Jean!

Turkey: Çanakkale Martyrs' Memorial

The Çanakkale Martyrs' Memorial is a war memorial commemorating the service of about 253,000 Turkish soldiers who participated at the Battle of Gallipoli, which took place from April 1915 to December 1915 during the First World War. It is located within the Gallipoli Peninsula Historical National Park on Hisarlık Hill in Morto Bay at the southern end of the Gallipoli peninsula in Çanakkale Province, Turkey.

Stamp is Protected Areas and National Parks, issued on 12.07.2016.

Thank you Burak!

Turkey: Rumelian Castle, Troy and Pamukkale

This is postcard from Turkey with interesting mix in one picture.

Rumelian Castle is a fortress located in the Sarıyer district of Istanbul, Turkey, on a hill at the European side of the Bosphorus. It gives the name of the quarter around it. It was built by the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II between 1451 and 1452, before his army's conquest of Constantinople.

Troy was a city situated in what is known from Classical sources as Asia Minor, now northwest Anatolia in modern Turkey, located south of the southwest end of the Dardanelles/Hellespont and northwest of Mount Ida at Hisarlık. It is the setting of the Trojan War described in the Greek Epic Cycle and especially in the Iliad, one of the two epic poems attributed to Homer.

Pamukkale is a natural site in Denizli Province in southwestern Turkey. The city contains hot springs and travertines, terraces of carbonate minerals left by the flowing water. It is located in Turkey's Inner Aegean region, in the River Menderes valley, which has a temperate climate for most of the year.

Stamp is Definitive - Tapestries (from set of five), issued on 06.08.2015.


Thank you Katarina!

Turkey: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was a Turkish army officer, revolutionary, and the first President of Turkey. He is credited with being the founder of the Republic of Turkey.
Atatürk was a military officer during World War I. Following the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in World War I, he led the Turkish National Movement in the Turkish War of Independence. Having established a provisional government in Ankara, he defeated the forces sent by the Allies. His military campaigns led to victory in the Turkish War of Independence. Atatürk then embarked upon a program of political, economic, and cultural reforms, seeking to transform the former Ottoman Empire into a modern and secular nation-state. Under his leadership, thousands of new schools were built, primary education was made free and compulsory, and women were given equal civil and political rights, while the burden of taxation on peasants was reduced. His government also carried out an extensive policy of Turkification.

Stamp is Occupations Sinking into Oblivion (from a set of four), issued on 03.09.2015.


Thank You Yağmur!

Breaking Bad

My first postcard from Turkey, and what a nice postcard!!! This is one of my favorite TV Shows!

Breaking Bad is an American crime drama television series created and produced by Vince Gilligan. It tells the story of Walter White (Bryan Cranston - on postcard), a struggling high school chemistry teacher diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer, who, together with his former student Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul), turns to a life of crime, producing and selling crystallized methamphetamine to secure his family's financial future before he dies.

Breaking Bad is widely regarded as one of the greatest television series of all time. By the time the series finale aired, the series was among the most-watched cable shows on American television. The show received numerous awards, including sixteen Primetime Emmy Awards, eight Satellite Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, two Peabody Awards and a People's Choice Award. For his leading performance, Cranston won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series four times. In 2013, Breaking Bad entered the Guinness World Records as the highest rated show of all time.

 

Stamps are also nice:

Flowers - Lilies, released on 2011-02-07
Tourism-Cities of Turkey (Konya), released on 2014-05-22

Thank You very much Baris!